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"I left my poniard somewhere, that is all I know, up to the hilt in a sheath of flesh; but in a second I was taken, carried off, dipped in the vat, and almost drowned." "And how did you get out of their hands?" "By committing a cowardice, sire." "What was that?" "Crying, 'Vive la Ligue!" "That was like me; only they made me add, 'Vive le Duc d'Anjou!" said D'Epernon.

"Touch me again, and I will plunge this dagger in your false heart!" cried she, drawing a poniard from her bosom. "I would not care, so I could say that you were mine before I died!" "Would that you were dead, that I might fly to him whose wife I am, in the sight of Heaven!" "Put up your dagger," said Strozzi, coldly, while a look of venom chased away the love that had beamed in his eye.

What was he now to do in such an extremity as this, with his victim lying dead at his feet, a poniard in his heart? Who would believe him to be guiltless of crime with such a dreadful evidence as this presented against him? How was he, a stranger in a foreign land, to totally defend himself against an accusing of mistaken justice?

I caught the cold gleam of steel in the hand that he brought back as stealthily as he had carried it to his poniard. Sant' Iddio! What a coward he was for all his bulk, to go so slyly about the business of stabbing a poor, helpless, defenceless Fool.

"You are not afraid?" A flush of sheer delight in life flooded her cheeks. "Afraid?" she laughed. "Hortense! Hortense! Do you not hear the drunken revel? Do you know what it means? This world is full of what a maid must fear. 'Tis her fear protects her." "Ah?" asks Hortense. And she opened the tight-clasped hunting-cloak. A Spanish poniard hung against the inner folds.

She told her attendant, the daughter of the custom-house officer at Narni, and a true child of the mountains, that no one must approach her, not even Colonel Campian, and the girl sat without the tent at its entrance, dressed in her many-colored garments, with fiery eyes and square white teeth, and her dark hair braided with gold coins and covered with a long white kerchief of perfect cleanliness; and she had a poniard at her side and a revolver in her hand, and she would have used both weapons sooner than that her mistress should be disobeyed.

We soldiers deal only in iron, sir, and cannot vie with the magnificence of Bagdad, yet wear this dagger for the donor's sake: and Alroy held out to Honain a poniard flaming with gems. The Envoy of Bagdad advanced, took the dagger, pressed it to his lips, and placed it in his vest. 'Scherirah, continued Alroy, 'this noble emir is your charge.

The men were clothed in a similar manner: with them were carried in the girdle the purse, the handkerchief, and the poniard: a white, and sometimes a coloured, turban covered the head; and over the Turkish doliman they wore in summer a wide and flowing white robe, and in winter the albornos or African mantle.

"Well," continued Fournier, "he himself has infringed this agreement; for this morning, besides the ragamuffins whom that ferret the Abbe de Gondi brought to us, there was some vagabond captain, who during the night struck with sword and poniard gentlemen of both parties, crying out at the top of his voice, 'A moi, D'Aubijoux!

I slowly recovered, and was taken in due time to Fort Delaware the rest you know. "I forgot to tell you one thing. The surgeon almost persuaded me that I had been the victim of nightmare. Unfortunately, however, for the theory of the worthy, I found a deep hole in my pillow, where the poniard had entered. "So you see it was madam, and not her ghost, who had done me the honor of a visit, Surry."